If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner